On 5/13/2004 16:54, Nick Cox wrote
>Do you mean
>
>program mysave
> version 8
> syntax anything(name=filename) [, * ]
> qui save `0'
> display as text `"file {stata use `filename':`filename'} saved"'
>end
>
>?
Yes, a good suggestion by Nick. Using
mysave, replace
would fail, though. Of course, this, too, could be worked around, by
making the filename optional and then checking for errors and the like.
I was actually suggesting it as a real built-in change, because it seemed
like a good extension of smcl. If it became part of the internals for any
kind of saving, it could also then be implemented for *every* save
operation, such as
-graph ..., saving()-
This would make smcl files even more useful.
Bill
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